Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia/Review

The assessment covers three areas:

Technical Quality. Examples: background noise, breath noise and pops, editing, bitrate.

Clarity, or how understandable the recording is. Examples: enunciation, consistency of pacing.

Accuracy, or how true the recording is to the source text. Examples: mis-reading of words, appropriate use of voice inflection to convey the meaning intended in the source text.

Listen to the recording in full and rate the percieved quality in each area as low, medium or high. See the rating criteria below.

Place the following template on the spoken article file talk page and fill it in with the results of the assessment:

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[edit] Rating criteria

Technical Quality

High:

Noise: No background noise and/or breath noise. No evidence of clipping or distortion.
Edits: Edits are clean, no clicks, pops or other edit-related noise. Little or no changes in audio level between edited sections. Good edit timing, no cut off or run-together words.
Recording/encoding: The file is recorded with one channel, a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz, and encoded to Ogg Vorbis at a nominal bitrate of 48 kb/s (or as close to it as possible, allowing for differences in encoding software).
Voice quality: No filters or effects have been applied that alter the natural quality of the voice, apart from equalisation. Minor processing artifacts that don't compromise voice clarity.
Licensing: All components of the recording, i.e. the narration and any sound clips or samples are licenseable under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), and have clearly stated references or links to the license information.
Format: The recording has at the beginning the Wikipedia introduction, and at the end the license statement, in accordance with the Spoken Wikipedia recording guidelines.

Medium:

Noise: Moderate background noise and/or breath noise, but not enough to distract attention from, or obscure the narration. Minor evidence of clipping or distortion.
Edits: Minor clicks, pops or other edit-related noise. Minor changes in audio level between edited sections. No cut off or run-together words.
Recording/encoding: The file is recorded with one channel, a sampling rate of up to 44.1 kHz, and encoded to Ogg Vorbis at a nominal bitrate of up to 96 kb/s.
Voice quality: No filters or effects have been applied that alter the natural quality of the voice, apart from equalisation. Moderate processing artifacts.
Licensing: All components of the recording, i.e. the narration and any sound clips or samples are licenseable under the GFDL, and have clearly stated references or links to the license information.
Format: Missing Wikipedia intro.

Low:

Noise: Significant background noise and/or breath noise that distracts attention from, or reduces the intelligibility of the narration. Significant evidence of clipping or distortion.
Edits: Significant clicks, pops or other edit-related noise. Significant changes in audio level between edited sections. Cut off or run-together words.
Recording/encoding: The file is recorded with two channels, and/or a sampling rate either lower or higher than 44.1 kHz, and/or encoded to Ogg Vorbis at a nominal bitrate higher than 96 kb/s.
Voice quality: Filters or effects have been applied that alter the natural quality of the voice. Significant processing artifacts.
Licensing: Components of the recording, i.e. the narration and any sound clips or samples are not licenseable under the GFDL, and/or do not have clearly stated references or links to the license information.
Format: Missing Wikipedia intro and/or license statement.

Clarity

High:

Enunciation: Enunciation is consistently clear, with easily understood speech.
Pacing: Pacing, or the speed at which the text is read, is consistently even throughout the recording.

Medium:

Enunciation: Enunciation is mostly clear, with only minor problems that do not significantly or consistently affect the understandability of the speech.
Pacing: Minor variations in pacing.

Low:

Enunciation: Significant enunciation problems which reduce the understandability of the speech.
Pacing: Significant variations in pacing.

Accuracy

High:

Fidelity: Fidelity to the core or main body of source text is high. Text is read out substantially as it was written (with the exception of minor alterations to clarify the meaning of text that does not translate well to spoken language), with minimal mis-reads. What mis-reads there are do not significantly alter the meaning of the source text. No ad-libs, or unnecessary speech that does not derive from, and is not related to the source text.
Inflection: Voice inflection is used in a conventional manner that aids in conveying the meaning of the source text, and not omitted entirely or over-emphasised.

Medium:

Fidelity: A moderate number of mis-reads, but not enough to significantly compromise the meaning of the source text. No significant ad-libs.
Inflection: Voice inflection is not consistently used in a manner that aids in conveying the meaning of the source text.

Low:

Fidelity: Mis-reads that significantly compromise the meaning of the source text. Significant ad-libs.
Inflection: Voice inflection is over-emphasised, and/or not consistently used in a manner that aids in conveying the meaning of the source text.